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Indeed, the staff's failure to distinguish the young fetus from the older fetus (which the staff agrees must not be aborted) plagues the editorial from start to finish. The argument that "the mother knows what's best for her and for the unborn fetus in her womb" is unreasonable not only because the mother's decision to kill the fetus is rarely a product of her concern for the fetus' interests but also because the staff acknowledges that the mother would not be allowed to abort an older (third-trimester) fetus. If the right to privacy invoked...
...Minnesota Education Fund Inc., sees the question of the legality of abortion in the starkest of terms. It writes, "'the only choice' in abortion is between a dead baby or a live baby." Abortion is deemed an absolute moral wrong because it involves the murder of an unborn child. If this claim is true, if abortion is murder, then it should be illegal under current American law, the brochure states. But for a multiplicity of other reasons, it can be shown that the ethical questions of the abortion procedure are not black and white...
...father and the state. Society has no claim on the individual, must less on a fetus yet to become an individual, that trumps the individual's right to privacy in decision making. It is precisely because the mother knows what is the best situation for her and for the unborn fetus in her womb that she is legally protected by both the Ninth and the 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution to make that decision...
...support of open dialogue. First, they oppose such legislation as parental notification acts or a 24-hour waiting period for reflection and counseling. Second, they conveniently ignore the fact that many citizens cannot make an informed decision without first determining whether abortion truly involves the murder of an unborn child--a decision aided by the data contained in pamphlets like the one recently distributed...
Keyes received the loudest applause of the afternoon after stating that his first act upon election would be to "restore the rights of the unborn child" and overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that now protects the legality of abortion...